5th Biology Scavenger Hunt

(EYE) Dominant vs. Recessive Phenotype: My mother's brown eye genotype is a dominant trait while my father's eyes are a recessive hazel. I have hazel eyes because my mother's father has hazel eyes so the recessive genotype of my grandfather combined with my father's to give me a hazel phenotype.

(FLY) Ectotherm: Ectotherms are cold blooded and flys are cold blooded.

(BIRD) Endotherm: An endotherm is a warm blooded animal and birds are warm blooded.

(CICADA) Exoskeleton: A cicada has a hard outer shell, that acts like the skeleton.

(DANDELION) Seed Dispersal: Later in the season, all the flower petals become seed and when the wind blows the seeds get blown away and grow new flowers.

Post #1 (plus please reference enzyme posted BEFORE I had any idea of what I was doing!)

Parasitism - see the little white fluffies sucking the life out of my mother's jasmine plant.

Parasitism is a type of non-mutual relationship where one organism benefits from the relationship and the other organism is harmed.

Connective tissue - aka Achilles tendon!

Connective tissue holds pieces of an organism together.

Lycopodium! Moss spores.

Spores are reproductive structures.

Living in symbiosis and Lichen it!

Lichen are composite organisms that consist of a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a photosynthetic partner (plant).

 Bilateral symmetry of a Japanese painted fern

Bilateral symmetry is where one plane will divide an organism into rough mirror image halves.

Endotherm - my mom's hot hand.

 Endotherm is an organism that produces heat through internal means such as shivering or increasing metabolism.

Shiny cuticle layer of a hosta.

Cuticle layer of a plant is a non-cellular protective layer covering the outer cell layer.

Predation - see the shimmer of the spider's web above. Just waiting for a juicy fly to land...

 Predation is a biological interaction where a predator feeds on it's prey.

Animal with segmented body - our dog has a spine.

Animal with a segmented body is a animal that has body parts

that have repetitive segments, such as a spine in a vertebrate.